Data Center Standards

Data Center Standards

1. Bad News

   • No world-wide standard

2. Good News

   • Semi-Standards
     • ANSI/TIA-942 Telecom Infrastructures
       • TIA-942 Redundancy Levels
         • Rated 1 DC
           • Single Path of power and cooling, many points of failure
         • Rated 2 DC
           • Single path of power and cooling with redundant components i.e N+1
         • Rated 3 DC
           • Multiple paths of power and cooling of which one is active allowing maintenance or testing on one path without causing issues
           • Concurrently maintainable
         • Rated 4 DC
           • Multiple active paths for power and cooling with redundancy in each path. Allows for 1 fault
           • Fault tolerant
     • ANSI/BICSI-002 DC Design and Implementation Best Practices
     • ANSI/TIA-606 For Labeling

3. Standard for DC's

   • Electrical
     • UNE-EN 50160, UNE-EN 61000-3-2, UNE-EN 61000-3-3, UNE-EN 55011, IEC-61543-1, EN-60730-2-7
   • Earthing
     • MIE-REBT-038, EN-50310
   • EMF
     • EN61000-4-8, EN55022, EN 55011
   • Environmental
     • IEC-61340-5-1, ASHRAE
   • Raised Floors
     • BS/EN 12825, UK-PSA PF2
   • Networks
     • ISO-11801, EN-50173, TIA-568A
   • Fire Protection
     • NFPA-75, NFPA-2001

4. National standards overrule international standards

5. Always check local standards compliance